Skeletal tests suggest sacrificial victims during Shang Dynasty were held for a time
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

(Phys.org)-A team of researchers from Canada and China has found skeletal evidence of sacrificial victims during the Shang Dynasty being held for a period of time before being killed. In their paper published in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, the group describes their chemical analysis of bones from 68 sacrificial victims from Yinxu-the Shang capital.